Arnie Robbins was named editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in December, 2005. He had been managing editor for nearly seven years, in charge of the daily news report and daily operations. He led the newspaper's coverage of the War on Terror in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, and the war in Iraq. Robbins was a Pulitzer Prize judge in 2006. He joined the Post-Dispatch in May 1997 as director of staff and organizational development and was named deputy editor six months later.

Robbins spent 13 years at the Minneapolis Star Tribune as executive sports editor, assistant managing editor/features, and change editor. He was a copyeditor and deputy sports editor at the Chicago Sun-Times from 1978-84, and a sports reporter and editor at the Suburban Tribune from 1975-78. He grew up in Cleveland and is a 1975 graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.

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Listen to Arnie Robbins explain the role of the next day's newspaper when the story has been broken online. Length: 1 min 27 sec